Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The Immortal Sect Disciple began to revive.

”A great emperor from the Horned Demon Imperial Clan...”

Jiang Ding silently pondered.

While he held reverence for the Flame Stone Great Emperor, he neither looked up to him nor did he feel nervous or anxious; instead, he thought with precision.

The current him is markedly different from the Blood River King.

The Blood River King had intense greed and desire for living beings, coupled with the extremist racial stance of a Human Race Sword Cultivator and almost uncontrolled demonic thoughts—essentially a typical Sword Dao old demon, with a firm Dao Heart.

But his original form is different.

The original form is not interested in slaughter, only fascinated by the death of the strong. Normally, if not necessary, he wouldn’t even appear before the weak, hidden in the void, let alone talk about killing.

His Dao Heart is different from the Blood River King’s.

While the original form holds an unwavering position on the Human Race, it also possesses sufficient patience and goodwill towards the beings of the Ten Thousand Clans, believing that outstanding beings among the clans can coexist under the order of the Human Race, adding diversity to the Immortal Path, and together pave the way for the extremely difficult and glorious path to become immortal.

In general, due to the difference in paths, the original form is easy to get along with. If you’re not strong enough, it’s difficult to even provoke him, very tolerant with the weak, and has a good temper.

Jiang Ding separated a thread of his Divine Soul and entered the Soul Void Realm.

In the hazy void space, nine figures stood quietly with unclear auras. They were not discussing anything, as if they had been waiting for who knows how long.

Swipe!

The eyes of the nine Daoists turned toward the newly arrived figure, revealing many complex emotions.

’The Dari Swordsman of the Eastern Devil School...’

A Daoist murmured this name in his heart.

Despite many opinions, dissatisfaction, and even anger towards the process, the final result clearly demonstrated the correctness of the other party. What looked like an incredibly difficult infiltration task was easily completed through the other party’s stirring of troubles, for the most part.

Yes, easily.

Inconceivably easy. The many hardships and dangers imagined before coming here didn’t materialize; they survived without any harrowing moments and completed the tasks methodically.

All they did was continuously infiltrate beings from various clans, lay Formation Methods, lay more Formation Methods, and then lay even more, without a single proper battle; the entire process was utterly boring, without a hint of excitement.

Regarding this outcome, aside from Taiyin Swordman Yu Qianzi who was extremely dissatisfied, all other Daoists were content, without any feeling of humiliation.

No, they were not merely content.

They were very, especially, extremely content!

Let those Sword Savages do the fighting.

They, the Magic Cultivators, are inherently suited for these types of safe, low-risk affairs, and their strength won’t be affected during the process, with the prospect of the Dao still reachable.

They Magic Cultivators don’t need strife; skirmishing is useless to them, and it won’t break through their Realms.

Their breakthroughs in Realm are related to the training of their Dao Heart, comprehension of the Dao, refining of a hundred Cultivation arts, understanding the principles between heaven, earth, and all living beings, as well as involving many Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures, and have nothing to do with skirmishing.

All the dangerous tasks were taken on by others; they just needed to do the rough work behind the scenes.

This kind of life is truly nostalgic.

Because of this, Daoists like Ji Liuyue and An Tuzi looked at Jiang Ding with a slightly... a very slight... a tiny bit... friendlier gaze.

Just that much.

It can’t be any more.

As long as the Dari Swordsman doesn’t give up that crazy sword of his, that useless sword, they will always be mortal enemies, even more severe than foes who cannot live under the same sky, with a rivalry that entails one must die, an inevitable confrontation of death in their Dao dispute.

”How are the preparations going?”

Jiang Ding’s gaze swept over the Nine Great Daoists, pausing especially on the eager Taiyin Swordman Yu Qianzi.

Taiyin Sword Cultivators, although relatively more inclined towards flexibility, coldness, and Concealment compared to the Great Sun Sword Cultivation, are still Sword Cultivators; not fighting for hundreds of years, always staying in hiding, it almost drove her insane.

Very weak.

Their Dao Heart is not firm enough.

”We have completed the Formation Methods in various places.”

”Moreover, due to the ample time, we have reserved plenty of excess capacity for the formations, so even in the event of an unforeseen situation, we can ensure that the formations will truly be activated and achieve their desired effect.”

Heavenly Calculator Daoist spoke.

The Dari Swordsman usually doesn’t bother with these matters, too lazy to do them, leaving it all to them. This is quite in line with the style of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s Swordsmen—doing nothing, caring about nothing, only engaging in battles.

This doesn’t matter. For this kind of heavy lifting, the Heavenly Calculator Daoist himself is quite happy to do it.

”Now, it’s time to lure that person near the Magical Stone Minor Realm.”

”As long as we can achieve this, our goal has over a 95% chance of success.”

Heavenly Calculator Daoist said solemnly: ”Even if that person isn’t currently in the Magical Stone Minor Realm, as long as they are in the Flame Stone Star Domain, if we immediately activate the formations everywhere, we still have a 10 to 20 percent chance of capturing them in an instant, or instantly slaying them, and then creating a Puppet from their corpse.”

That person naturally refers to the Flame Stone Great Emperor.

Many extremely powerful Cultivators possess an instinct that allows them to know when beings thousands of miles away mention their name, possessing abilities as terrifying as Cause and Effect.

Therefore, it is necessary to avoid this at all costs, even if they are in the Soul Void Realm created by the pinnacle concealment techniques of the Nine Spirits Realm, which can block Cause and Effect probing.

”We are starting to gain some confidence.”

”However, the best scenario is naturally to attract that person to appear near the Magical Stone Minor Realm so that we can be completely foolproof.”

Heavenly Calculator Daoist looked at the blurry figure in front of him and asked, ”Are you sure? Do you need our assistance?”

”The situation has improved a lot now; even if there are one or two flaws or oversights, it doesn’t matter, they will not affect the overall situation. Many powers can be unsealed now, just sweep away the traces carefully after success.”

Until now, the Nine Spirits Realm was still united, with no risk of internal conflict among the Immortal Sects, so he was willing to offer his help.

”No need.”

”You will only mess things up; just stay put.”

Jiang Ding flatly refused, without a moment’s hesitation.

”Only mess things up?”

The brows of the Heavenly Calculator Daoist, Ji Liuyue, and others twitched.

They were very tempted to open up the Dao Domains of the Nine Great Daoists right now and encircle this Sword Cultivator here for a kill. After all, without the Forbidden Nuclear Weapons support from the Eastern Devil School’s Gulin Zi, their chances of winning were quite good.

They had enough confidence in this regard.

It is true that the Dari Swordsman’s strength has increased rapidly.

But they are Daoists too, having received the vigorous cultivation of the Immortal Sects, and their strength has also increased at a not-slow pace!

Because of the emergence of outsiders, they have received cultivation that exceeds that of previous generations of Daoists, with Great Experts willing to harm their own interests to cultivate them.

It can be said that the strength enhancement of this generation’s Dari Swordsman, in turn, promoted the strength enhancement of the Daoists, and with the additional cultivation by the Immortal Sects under external pressure, the strength of the Eight Great Daoists is also set to exceed that of the vast majority of the historical Immortal Sect Disciples.

This is the importance of competition and tempering for talents.

As the enemy becomes stronger, one must also become stronger, otherwise, they would have long been dead.

Now, like Jiang Ding, the Heavenly Calculator Daoist and the others have also become somewhat inflated in strength and even some aggressive Daoists have tried to actively encircle the Dari Swordsman, to eliminate the future threat as soon as possible, instead of living in fear every day, having to reserve a portion of their Divine Sense for defense and early warning during Cultivation.

However, after pondering for a moment, the Heavenly Calculator Daoist and the others still held back in the end.

Now is really not the time.

”If you don’t need help, then be it.”

”Let’s hope the outcome will be as you said, without any surprises.”

Heavenly Calculator Daoist said solemnly.

”Don’t jinx it.”

”I never guaranteed there wouldn’t be any surprises. If there are, so be it. It’s not my fault anyway, it’s just your incompetence that caused it. What does that have to do with me...”

Jiang Ding muttered under his breath.

His figure gradually disappeared, leaving the Soul Void Realm.